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Car Rental Lismore
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In the Far North Coast region of New South Wales lies Lismore, a
thriving university city at the doorstep of five World Heritage National
parks.
Romantically, the town was named by Jane Wilson, wife of the first white settler,
Scot William Wilson. The area reminded her of the Lismore on the Isle of Loche
Linnhe where she and William had honeymooned. Today, however, a series of astonishing
links has led to Lismore taking the name Rainbow Region: the Aborigines believe
the land was created by the Rainbow Serpent; the first white explorers sailed
down the Richmond River in HMS Rainbow; the celebrated Aquarius Festival of 1973
adopted a rainbow theme; rainbows are a regular phenomena over the surrounding
mountains.
And while the city is acknowledged as a large and important commercial centre
serving that lush, fertile country typical of NSW's northern rivers, the influence
of the Aquarius Festival lives on in the perception that Lismore remains at the
heartland of Australia's hippiedom. These days, however, the alternative lifestyle
is driven more by a passionate defence of the sanctity of the remaining rainforest
and wilderness areas than psychedelia.
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